Agent Shep's Report //Round Three//

[Phillip Sheppard]

[Phillip Sheppard]

Day #10

So for this day's challenge, Kristina & Andrea needed to participate and the sad fact is... neither contributed much at all, Kris due to internet connection problems and Andrea with just being naive & tinypic issues. As a former special agent I am used to dealing with newbies but it was still agitating to have just myself, Brandon, and Ashley doing the challenge while the other two didn't do much at all.

An interesting conversation did come up however at the beginnings of night, partway into the challenge with Francesca...

Francesca 7:55 pm
oh, I was wondering if Brandon came to you about the three of us forming an alliance

Phillip Sheppard 7:55 pm
No he hasn't. o.O

Francesca 7:55 pm
I figure the three of us are the strongest on Ometepe

Phillip Sheppard 7:56 pm
Well you're really good at puzzles, and I'd like to think I am pretty fast when it comes to speed challenges.

Francesca 7:57 pm
I'd really like us three making it to the very end
what do you think?

Phillip Sheppard 7:59 pm
I think that's a great idea/thought. It'll be tough but it's definitely possible. :-)
Tough because people will probably view us as big threats physically in the merge y'know?

Francesca 8:00 pm
if our tribe continues to do well, we can take the numbers into the tribe swap.

Phillip Sheppard 8:02 pm
True, hopefully we can win the challenge then so we can maintain our numbers advantage.

Phillip Sheppard 8:10 pm
So Brandon approached you about the idea of us three or is it your idea? =-O

Francesca 8:11 pm
I asked him about it. he said he liked the idea

Francesca 8:20 pm
Did you talk to Brandon about the idea?

Phillip Sheppard 8:20 pm
Yeah and it seems like a good idea to me, the strong sticking together with the strong and all that.

Francesca 8:22 pm
that sounds awesome. hopefully if we can continue our tribe's winning, then we can have the whole Ometepe tribe together

Now at first I found this strange that Brandon went to Francesca about some sort of alliance when we already have something going with Grant, so I decided to confront him about this. In the past I was used to situations where careful use and pronunciations of words assisted in persuading an adversary in divulging the information necessary. It helped me get a better handle on the situation.

Phillip Sheppard 8:14 pm
So apparently you and I are in a rather interesting position in terms of people wanting to work with us? xD

Brandon Q 8:16 pm
I talked to Fran last night and she wants us 3 in a core alliance with her

Phillip Sheppard 8:17 pm
Yeah she approached me a few minutes ago asking if you brought it up with me. I was like 'news to me' so I wanted to check in with you on what the plan is?
Because it looks like you and I have two different F3 deals. xD This isn't even counting the fact that we want Kristina with us and Grant.

Brandon Q 8:18 pm
I was gonna bring it up with you but I haven't gotten the chance with this challenge lol

Phillip Sheppard 8:19 pm
Nah it's all good, I'm not mad or anything. Just doublechecking with you.

Brandon Q 8:19 pm
We're getting ourselves into a few different deals but at the same time its always good to have people wanting to work with us, we just need to figure out what we want to do

It looks like Brandon and myself are the power players of our tribe which is nice to see. But we all know who the alpha male is around here... A-HOOAH!

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